Cajun Dirty Rice Recipe
An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott
Recipe Overview
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 25 minutes
The rice is best made a day ahead
Ingredients Needed
- 1.5 cups long grain rice (I used brown basmati) or you can cook this in the pan and start with uncooked rice
- 3 cups chicken stock
- Oil for frying (I used pork fat)
- 1 onion, peeled and diced
- 4 cloves garlic, peeled and diced
- 2 ribs celery, diced
- 1/2 green capsicum, diced
- 2 bay leaves
- 200g/7ozs. minced beef or pork
- 200g/7ozs. bacon, finely chopped
- 180g/6ozs. chicken livers, sinew removed and pureed
- 4 tablespoons Cajun seasoning
- 2 green shallots, sliced
- Salt and pepper for seasoning
Step-By-Step Cooking Instructions
Preparing the Rice Base
Step 1 - Cook the rice the day before by cooking it in the stock. Then cool and refrigerate.
Cooking the Aromatics and Meat
Step 2 - Add oil or fat to a large frypan and saute onions, garlic, celery and capsicum until soft-around 10 minutes on medium high heat. Add bay leaves and then fry the mince and bacon until cooked through.
Combining and Final Cooking
Step 3 - Add the rice and Cajun seasoning and then add the chicken livers turning the rice in the livers. If you are using uncooked rice, add the chicken stock here and then cook the rice through in the pan. Add shallots and serve.